Anti-Doomscroll Tamagotchi Only Lives if You Do
The odds are, you have a device deliberately designed to be addictive in your pocket or on the table next to you if you aren’t staring at it right now– …read more
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Are Desktop PC-ABS Prints Outperformed by Industrial FDM? Not Really
[Igor] of [My Tech Fun] set out to discover what differences, if any, can be found between parts printed in PC-ABS filament on an industrial 3D printer, and those from …read more
Celebrate 100 Years of Winnie-the-Pooh with the NYPL
First published in October 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh is celebrating its 100th birthday. The New York Public Library will be honoring the anniversary with original illustrations, events, and more!
UN General Assembly endorses a new world map that shows more accurately Africa’s size
The Associated Press reports that the United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to endorse the Equal Earth projection as a replacement for the Mercator map. The resolution was sponsored by Togo and backed by African…
How ‘cornflakes’ can help decode ancient writing
Margherita Bassi, writing for Popular Science, reports on the small papyrus scraps that papyrologists call cornflakes. Each one holds a partial piece of an ancient text. This summer, nine researchers from around the…
A vacuum tube computer for the home
A project posted on Hackaday.io documents an 8 bit computer built entirely from vacuum tubes. The builder used recycled 1950s 6N3P double triodes, sourced in Eastern Europe a few years ago. The 6N3P is a Soviet era…
The otherworldly geology of Vasquez Rocks
NASA explains the geology behind Vasquez Rocks in a story published by the NASA Earth Observatory. The sedimentary layers at the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area in Southern California tilt at an average of 50 degrees, which…
JP’s Product Pick of the Week — New Earlier Time!! 3pm Eastern TODAY 9/8/26 and Beyond! @adafruit #adafruit #newproductpick
Product Picks come earlier now! One hour earlier in fact. Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week ! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 3pm ET / 12pm PT We’re making changes to some show schedules…
Rooftop solar, four winters later: an analysis
Martin has published four years of measured data from his rooftop solar install on harizanov.com. The system went up in June 2022 in Sofia: 6.4 kWp of panels, a Fronius GEN24 inverter, a 7.7 kWh BYD battery, an Ohmpilot…
Factoring the RSA keys of an (old) certificate authority
Matthew McPherrin went looking for RSA keys small enough to break on a desktop, and found them in the root certificate stores of 1990s browsers. Writing on mcpherrin.ca, he describes pulling old Internet Explorer and…
Fixing a 1990s LEGO Electric Train Speed Regulator
Before LEGO train sets moved to battery-powered locomotives with plastic rails, all of them worked pretty much like any other train set of the era. This meant metal rails that …read more
Audacity 4.0.0 released
The Audacity project has published Audacity 4.0.0 on GitHub. The release rebuilds the application interface on Qt and adds a new clip-editing model. Most Audacity 3 workflows still work, though some controls have moved…
New Open Source Hardware variant of Neo6502 now includes keyboard, 4 USB hosts, UEXT, power switch and USB-C for power and programming all in one keyboard body
Olimex has announced the Neo6502kbd, an all-in-one retro computer built into a keyboard body. It uses a real 6502 processor and can emulate the Apple II and the Oric Atmos, with video going out over DVI/HDMI to a modern…
Overwatch: one home automation dashboard to rule them all
Brad Feld, writing on his blog, got tired of running his houses through 17 phone apps and built his own dashboard instead. The trigger was small: J. Geiger shades on a Crestron processor that neither the retired…
Stuxnet reverse engineered code posted to GitHub
GitHub user Sadpainy has posted a repository recreating the code used in Stuxnet: This repository contains a strictly educational and research-oriented reconstruction of the infamous Stuxnet worm. It is the product of…
Recursion into madness
Security researcher lcamtuf ran an experiment on recursive AI output and wrote it up onlcamtuf’s thing. The setup: feed a model its own work over and over and see what breaks. For images, the answer came fast. A faux…
Happy Star Trek Day 2026, Star Trek Turns 60! #StarTrekDay
Every September 8 is Star Trek Day! Now celebrating 60 years! From niche fandom to cultural touchstones, the trekkie universe has boomed. Today, and everyday, we love to post about all things Star Trek. With news and…
ESP32-P4 powers video alarm clock
brunokeymolen has published a bedside alarm clock on GitHub that wakes you with a video instead of a beep. It runs on a Waveshare ESP32-P4-WIFI6-Touch-LCD-4B, a 720×720 MIPI-DSI touch panel with GT911 touch, an ES8311…
NEW GUIDE: Adafruit Monster Eyes #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
The animated eyeballs on the MONSTER M4SK and Hallowing boards are an Adafruit spooky season staple. But, new boards and displays have come into vogue and it was time to revisit this code base. The new version is called…
Token optimization using Python for prompt development
Dr. Magesh Kasthuri writes in Open Source For You about building a Python framework that takes an English prompt, analyzes it, strips duplicate or low-value text, and returns a shorter prompt that behaves like the…
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